Where to Buy Stencils for Furniture and Walls (5 Best Resources!)

Yes, your local craft stores have stencils, but they’re unlikely to be the cool, trendy stencils that you see paraded all over Pinterest.

You can take the most boring piece of furniture and add a coat of paint and stencils and–BOOM!–suddenly it has an amazing “WOW” factor it didn’t have with just a coat of paint.

That’s what I have used stencils in many of my DIY projects because it adds a bit of flair without needing to buy many more tools or materials–only buying stencils.

And I tend to use the same stencils over and over, so they’re cost effective when you look at how many projects on which you can reuse them!

But the question is, where to buy stencils for furniture and walls?

For those quality and trendy stencils, you’ve got to go online. And in this post, I’m going to share with you my top favorite places to buy stencils, along with info on how I sometimes like to make my own stencils.

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When you own quality stencils like from Royal Design Studio, you can reuse them over and over again!

Here are links to where to buy stencils for furniture and walls, which happen to be some of my favorite stencils!

My Top 5 Favorite Royal Design Studio Stencils For Furniture and Walls

Floral Damask Wall Stencil – This pretty floral damask stencil has been used on at least 5 different projects in my house! You will absolutely love it! (This is the stencil that I used above).

Mansion House Grille Trellis Wall Stencil – I used this stencil for my half-bath makeover (seen below) and it turned out very well! I’ll admit that it was hard stenciling around such tight corners in a small bathroom, but I stuck with it and loved how it turned out! You can even watch the full video tutorial here.

Palace Trellis Moroccan Wall Stencil – This stencil looks great as a wall accent, on ceilings and walls with molding to accent its artistic beauty, and “busy” enough that little imperfections in your wall or stenciling technique wouldn’t be noticed. Love this one!

4. Craft Stores & Home Improvement Stores

The thing is that if you’re looking to buy large stencils for walls, which are typically larger, many of these craft and home improvement stores aren’t going to offer those. You’re likely to be limited in the size of the stencil you can find there.

Don’t try to use a small stencil on a large wall (if you’re covering a lot of square footage). It would take forever! 🙂

(P.S. Notice that this Moroccan tile stencil from Hobby Lobby is pretty small and would work well for pillows, dresser drawers, table tops, etc.).

5. How to Make Your Own Stencils

When it comes to making your own stencils, you’ve got a couple of choices.

First, you can go the cheap route and get some stenciling sheets from Amazon, with a stencil cutting knife, and design your own stencils.

Or you can go the expensive route and buy yourself a DIY cutting machine.

Several years ago I bought a Silhouette Cameo which can cut stencils and vinyl (among other things like paper, cardstock, and fabric up to 12 inches wide). I haven’t nearly used my Cameo for everything it can do! I have only used my Cameo for cutting vinyl.

Use Regular Paint For Stenciling Walls

The paint you use on your walls should be different than the paint you’d use on furniture. Wall paint doesn’t stick quite as well as paint designed for furniture unless you sand and prime. Furniture paints are “hearty” and will stick to nearly anything–wood, plastic, glass, metal–you name it, generally without sanding or priming first (yes, even shiny furniture).

But if you’re stenciling walls, regular ‘ole paint from your home improvement store will be just fine. 🙂

Some Stenciling Ideas

Now that you know where to buy stencils for furniture and walls, get inspired with some of these stenciling projects.

Comments

Hi Serena
And thanks again for another great tip.
I’ll be doing several projects this fall I hadn’t thought much to stencil.
Perhaps maybe I will.
In the meantime I plan to catch up with more of your youtube vedios this weekend.
It will be my version of Netflex binging!
After seeing what you did with that metal cabinet.
I’m eager to rework an up right file cabinet that was offered to me.
Maybe I will stencil it later this fall.
Until then; I thank you for being a bright place of hope until I complete my current move.
With great admiration for the time and instruction you give,
Regina

To give a new look new concepts and ideas are always around us what we all to do is to analyze then find them and apply them to make something beautiful. it is possible because nothing is impossible in this world. Lovely concept and lovely work, enjoy the reading and the concept.

I have heard awesome things about Cricut! I’m not really sure why it’s considered so good, since I only have a Cameo, but I’ll be looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it for making stencils. Keep me posted! 🙂

When I was younger and lived in a mobile home, I had a small hearts/dutch flower stencil and everything in my house had the design on it. Every cabinet door, lampshade, pillow, etc. Take my advice and don’t do your stencil that way! We sold the place, but I don’t think my stencils helped!

HAHAHA, but that was probably “the style” back then, right? 🙂 Now, we’d probably make a bigger fuss over all those stencils. 🙂 There IS such as thing as “too much.” We just have to know when to say WHEN. lol

You’d love the Cameo, Missy! But be sure to check out the Cricut, too. I have friends that say they prefer the Cricut over the Cameo. Not sure how they compare price-wise, though. And yes, the 10-miler! I worked my way up to 7 miles earlier this week! WOO HOO! 10 miles here I come!

Rock that 10-miler and all the training leading you there. Thank you for writing this post and sharing with the world. I was recently bitten by the “stencil bug” and am literally stenciling everything in sight. Very addicting. Like you said…stencils add a wow factor! And since I binge-watched the Royal Stencil YouTube channel…I will definitely follow your links to buy my next stencil from them and show my love for your awesome blog. Thank You Serena ~ Goodnight!

Awww…Shirlene, you are awesome! Thank you for the support! LOL about you stenciling everything. One of the other comments here mentioned about stenciling EVERYTHING in her mobile home years ago–like EVERYTHING! All with the same stencil. Too funny! I do hope you’re changing up your stencils and not turning into a “One Stencil Wonder” like me and that other reader. HA!

Yeah, I love Royal Design Studio stencils! And I love that they are selling Annie Sloan chalk paint there, too, so that you can order everything together. Very smart move on their part, for sure!